[John-W]

If you’re standing on the South Pole, how many different ways are there to get to the North Pole? You could say that there’s only one way – north, and that all other ways are wrong. Or you could say there are many different ways and one can get to the North Pole (through different countries, oceans, etc.) and that they each have their good points and bad points, but in the end they all reach the North Pole. Now imagine that you are a person who sails a passenger ship from the South Pole up the Atlantic to the North Pole. You would want everyone to use your services, so you might say that yours was the best. And you might also try to discourage the use of other routes – this would take away from your business, after all – so you might say that no one has ever survived the journey on those ‘other’ routes. But secretly you know that as long as the person goes north, they’ll get there… I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a religion, Christian or otherwise, say that another religion will also work. Religions always want to be the one and only way to achieve heaven/nirvana/immortality /valhalla/etc. And since they do that, by extension they must say that anyone who uses any other religion must be damned. I like to think of it as the ‘Ghandi test’ – find a non-Hindu religion that says that Ghandi won’t be damned. I don’t believe that you can – it’s just part of religion. However, you can remember that there’s more than one way to get to the North Pole.

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Name : John-W, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 33, City : Cleveland, State : OH, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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